Improvement in floor-timber supports



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODOR- VOELOKERS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOOR-TIMBER suPPoR'rs.

l Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,947, dated March 18, 1873.

To all 'whom yit may concern: Y of the plate A are formed shoulders al, to rest Be it known that I, THEODORE VOELGKERS, against the face of the wall, and which may of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State be wholly or partially let into the wall, if deA of Massachusetts, have invented a new and sired. Upon the upper side of the outer part useful Improvement in Device for Supportin g of the plate A is formed a transverse groove, Floor-Timbers, of which the following is a a2, as shownin the drawing. Bisaplate which specification: is designed to be secured to the under side of Figure l is a side view of my improved dethe ends of the joists. Upon the under side lvice, shown as applied to an outer or side wall. of the outer ends of the plates B is formed a Fig. 2 shows the device made double, and aproundedV transverse projection, L', to lit into the plied to a partition-wall. Fig. 3 is a perspecgroove c2 of the plate A. In the case of inner tive view of the device shown in Fig. ldetached or partition walls, the plate A may extend en- `from the wall and joist. Fig. 4 is a perspectirely through the wall and have a groove, a?, tive bottom View of the device shown in Fig. and projections a1 at each end, as shown in 2 detached from the wall. Fig. 5 is a topper- Figs. 2, 4, and 5. If desired, the plate A may spective view of the same. Fig. 6 represents be flanged, as shown in Fig. 6, to support the a modification of the device. joists in an upright position.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- By this construction, should one or more of sponding parts. the joists break or be burned oft' the projection My invention has for its object to furnish b will be thrown out of the groove a?, so that an improved device for connecting iioorltixnT the wall will not be disturbed by the falling bers with the supportingwalls in such a way of the joists. This construction also allows as to firmly support said timbers without the walls to be built solid, so that they may be j weakening the wall, and in such a way that, built lighter and still have more strength than should a joist break, be burnt off', or otherheavier walls built with openings to receive wise give way, 1't` may fall without pulling the ends ofthe joists in the ordinary way. the wall down with it, and which shall at the Having thus described my invention, I claim same time be simple in construction and conas new and desire to secure by Letters Patvenient and reliable in use. The invention entconsists in the two plates, the one having a The plates A B, the plate A having' a transtransverse groove formed upon the upper side verse groove, a2, formed upon the upper side of one or both ends, and the other plate of one or both ends, and the plate B having a having a corresponding transverse projection corresponding transverse projection formed 'formed upon the under side of its outer end, upon the under side of its outer end, substanas hereinafter fully described, for the purpose tially as herein shown and described, for the ot' supporting floor timbers and connecting purpose of supporting door-timbers and conthem with the walls. necting them with the walls, as set forth.

A is a plate, which is designed to be built THEODORE VOELOKERS. into the wall, and the inner end of which may Vitnesses: be flanged to give it a firmer hold upon the J. F. EATON, wall. Upon the lower side of the outer part NATHL. RUDD. 

